army_man_complete

by: George Meyer

Publication date: 1988

Topics: army man magazine, george meyer, jokes, the simpsons

Collection: magazine_contributions; magazine_rack

Language: English

Army Man was a short-lived comedy magazine published in the late 1980s by George Meyer, the acclaimed head writer for The Simpsons. It was the first publication to feature Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts". Army Man was never widely distributed but gathered massive attention in the comedy world.

Many of Army Man's writers would go onto The Simpsons, namely David Sacks, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Kevin Curran and Billy Kimball. Other notable contributors of the magazine included Mark O'Donnell, Andy Borowitz, Andy Breckman, Roz Chast, Spike Feresten, Ian Frazier, Ann Hodgman, Mitchell Kriegman, Merrill Markoe, Patricia Marx, Bob Odenkirk and David Owen.

The writers were usually people Meyer knew from his years at the Harvard Lampoon or who worked with him in TV shows like Late Night with David Letterman, The New Show, Not Necessarily The News and Saturday Night Live.

Only three issues were ever published.

Years later all three were sent to armymans.tumblr.com by George. I lovingly present them to you to appreciate and share.